On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 03:17 -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:>> > With a single suspend manager process that manages the suspend state you>> > can achieve the same goal.>>>> Yes we don't need the /dev interface, but it is useful. Without it any>> program that needs to block suspend has to make a blocking ipc call>> into the suspend manager process. Android already does this for java>> code, but system processes written in C block suspend directly with>> the kernel since they cannot use the java APIs.

2010/5/26 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>:> So provide a C interface to it as well?>> Surely you can have the java thing have a unix socket or something a C> app can talk to. That shouldn't be hard at all.>> Or make the suspend manager a C proglet and provide a JNI interface, or> whatever.

Yup, I don't quite get Arve's argument either. C code can interactwith Java code (and vice versa) just fine in userspace.--To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.orgMore majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/